{"id":1335,"date":"2009-10-14T09:27:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T13:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2009-10-14T11:09:49","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T15:09:49","slug":"stupid-bill-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1335\/stupid-bill-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Bill of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress almost enjoys wasting time and money.\u00a0 When they&#8217;re not orchestrating a wholesale takeover of the health care industry, they&#8217;re naming post offices or introducing worthless bills.<\/p>\n<p>Take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/ftpdocs\/106xx\/doc10654\/hr2811.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">H.R. 2811<\/a>, introduced by Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-FL).\u00a0\u00a0The legislation would &#8220;<strong>include constrictor snakes of the species Python genera as an injurious animal<\/strong>.&#8221;\u00a0 This is not a joke.\u00a0 Not only does Rep. Meek waste our money but he apparently enjoys making the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) suffer.\u00a0 The CBO <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/ftpdocs\/106xx\/doc10654\/hr2811.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">put a price<\/a> tag on the bill and estimated that it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">will not<\/span> significantly impact federal spending.\u00a0 Hurray.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Rep. Meek saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0417148\/\" target=\"_blank\">this movie<\/a> too many times?<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"445\" height=\"364\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/z4t6zNZ-b0A&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;border=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"445\" height=\"364\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/z4t6zNZ-b0A&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;border=1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress almost enjoys wasting time and money.\u00a0 When they&#8217;re not orchestrating a wholesale takeover of the health care industry, they&#8217;re naming post offices or introducing worthless bills. Take H.R. 2811, introduced by Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-FL).\u00a0\u00a0The legislation would &#8220;include constrictor snakes of the species Python genera as an injurious animal.&#8221;\u00a0 This is not a joke.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[283],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-stupid-bill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1338,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/1338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}